Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep Gets a Release Date…In Japan

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep has been a highly anticipated prequel taking place before the original Kingdom Hearts game. Tetsuya Nomura (director of Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep) in recent years talked about making portable Kingdom Hearts games. At last year’s DKΣ371 (a private Square Enix party), a playable demo was present, and many thought the game was soon to be released. Then at Tokyo Game Show last month, a new demo and another trailer was shown.

Finally, an official release date has been set for January 9th, 2010; this puts to rest the recent rumors of a December 25th release. Furthermore, this date only holds true if you live in Japan. No news yet on North American or European releases.

Sadly, we have some waiting to do. My bet is on it being released sometime in August of next year, though I wouldn’t be surprised if they waited until November. Until then, I will be getting my Kingdom Hearts fix by playing KH: 358/2 Days on my DS.